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Mindfulness predicts less texting while driving among young adults: Examining attention- and emotion-regulation motives as potential mediators 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Feldman, G.,Greeson, J.,Renna, M.,Robbins-Monteith, K.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2011
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Personality and individual differences
  • 발행사항Vol.51No.7[2011]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0191-8869
  • 소개/요약Many young adult drivers read and send text messages while driving despite clear safety risks. Understanding predictors of texting-while-driving may help to indentify relevant targets for interventions to reduce this dangerous behavior. The present study examined whether individual differences in mindfulness is associated with texting-while-driving in a sample of young-adult drivers. Using path analysis, we tested whether this relationship would be mediated by the degree to which individuals use text-messaging as a means of reducing unpleasant emotions (emotion-regulation motives) and the degree to which individuals limit texting in order to focus on present-moment experiences (attention-regulation motives). Individuals lower in mindfulness reported more frequent texting-while-driving and this relationship appeared to be mediated primarily by emotion-regulation motives. Results may help inform the development of mindfulness-based interventions to prevent texting-while-driving.